during anna’s quest to plan the most perfect birthday of all time, she scoured pinterest for ballet cakes. when she showed them to me and they all had gumpaste ballet slippers standing upright on top, i knew i had to make that happen. even if her party attendees were only family and venue was our […]
cakery and confections
cinco de mayo, in the time of coronavirus.
during our time roaming around the southwest in the camper, we developed quite an affinity for mexican culture. so, this year, we decided to really do it up, quarantine style, for cinco de mayo. fun fact, annas due date was may 5th, but she was late. ho hum. originally, i had just planned to do […]
e’s daniel tiger birthday.
well. since i’m in coronavirus quarantine, it seems like a good time to catch up my blog for the last two months. in february, one of our new little friends celebrated her second birthday. i met e’s mom at a wild and free homeschool event, discovered she was from western-ish new york, and we became […]
isaac’s stranger things cake.
isaac’s current obsession in life (aside from the old standby, minecraft) is stranger things. the best part about it is that our whole family is actually really into it, so when he requested a stranger things cake, i was pretty excited to make it happen. we scoured pinterest for days, searching for cool ideas, but […]
new house baking extravaganza.
not only we were able to assemble full size gingerbread houses and bake and decorate actual sugar cookies in our stupid new giant house. the girls and i also had a full fledged cookie baking campaign that spanned days, maybe weeks. we searched for various delicious recipes to try, assembled the ingredients, put on our […]
hazel’s super early birthday party.
while we were “home”, we also managed to squeeze in a little birthday celebration for the crazelnut. her actual birthday is in a week, but we will be all alone on the road, so we had a little family party between our thanksgiving and our extra early family christmas. since i sold all of my […]
a peppa pig themed 2nd birthday party for the crazelnut.
i can’t even believe it. it went by in a flash. last thursday, hazel turned two. she’s currently obsessed with all things peppa pig, so a peppa pig themed party was in order. first, we attempted some chalkboard birthday pics. she loved the balloons. but, overall, was NOT super cooperative. we had to switch out […]
the frozen cakery
when we settled on a frozen themed birthday for the girl, i began to pin approximately 800 cakes and cupcakes. after much deliberation, i settled on these. first. some snowflake decor. i made two trays full of sparkly fondant snowflakes. i was just going to shove plastic rings on plain cupcakes for school, but then […]
isaac’s eighth birthday.
minecraft mania.
last saturday. isaac lidbom turned. eight. eight. EIGHT. how did this happen? anyhooo… we took some obligatory chalkboard pics of the boy as he entered into his ninth year on the planet… first, one by himself. all proud. then, anna joined in the fun. except she wasn’t feeling it was so fun to have all […]
rainbow dash cake
as i previously mentioned, anna decided on a rainbow dash cake. obviously, that meant the inside should be rainbow layers. obviously. the crumb coated cake is always pretty too. rainbow dash. on a cloud. as requested. it was also explained to me that i was NOT to put the blue border around the bottom of […]